Janine

Where Janine comes from

From French Janine and Jeannine under influence from Jane, from Jeanne + -ine, q.v. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
— Wiktionary's entry for Janine
  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,876 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Peak, #231
    1,380 babies named Janine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1962
    Janine Turner born
    American actress
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #367.
  5. 1978
    Janine Jansen born
    Dutch violinist and violist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Janine Jansen · Dutch violinist and violist, born 1978
  • Janine Turner · American actress, born 1962
  • Janine Lindemulder · American pornographic actress, born 1968
  • Janine Sonis · Canadian soccer player, born 1994
  • Janine Flock · Austrian skeleton racer, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.